Exit Spadolini; enter Spadolini?

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Compiled From Wire Service Dispatches With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World,
Edited By Anne Shutt /
August 12, 1982

Rome

Prime Minister-designate Giovanni Spadolini began the arduous task Wednesday of trying to put together Italy's 42nd government since World War II.

Mr. Spadolini, whose 13-month-old coalition Cabinet collapsed last weekend, accepted the assignment from President Sandro Pertini. The third-ranking Socialist Party, which precipitated the latest crisis by withdrawing from the Cabinet, said it would make Spadolini's task difficult, if not impossible. The Socialists would be a necessary part of almost any governing coalition.